What We Mean by Experience.:

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this pro...

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1. Verfasser: Janack, Marianne, 1964-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Zusammenfassung:Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James, by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both, a holdov.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (216 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.
ISBN:9780804784306
0804784302